maybe adding home and home.spencerogden.com would work since in man hosts it has: 192.168.1.10 foo.mydomain.org foo
and depending on whether your IP is static, you'd add it to localhost's entry or make a new one. On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:07:50AM -0500, Spencer Ogden wrote: > Yeah, I thought that is what would happen. I have the line: > 127.0.0.1 localhost spencerogden.com > in /etc/hosts > and : > order hosts,bind > in resolv.conf > > But things didn't seem to be taking the expected action when the network > was unavailible, hostname would just hang as it timed out through the name > servers. oh well, its working now. > > Spencer > -- "If I have an apple and you have an apple, and we exchange apples, we each still have one apple. But If I have an idea and you have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each have two ideas." (George Bernard Shaw) _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux